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  • 10 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Knowledge Coach

helpful to the total novice. In our entrepreneurship study, we observed extensive chains of knowledge transfer in which a coach's protégé quickly became a coach to someone less knowledgeable than himself, who then coached a budding entrepreneur even more callow. The... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
  • 02 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping

"Having the net made these people more willing to walk on the high wire," Olds says. "It didn't make them want to walk on the net." In the next stage of his research, Olds is researching how the social safety net influences the potential labor pool... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 10 Nov 2015
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November 10, 2015

with their basic knowledge of the operating characteristics of these various industries to match each firm to the correct industry. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/216014-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 816-023 Dinr: My First View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom

By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Dec 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Risks and Rewards of the Intrapreneur

Your company is forming an intrapreneurial venture, and has asked you to join the start-up team. Is this a career pick-me-up, or occupational suicide? It could be either one, and employees should carefully weigh the pros and cons before... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Mar 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs

business model, he continued. He also said start-ups should spend more time on market verification and market feedback than on the "front office" issues of building a business. Fialkow's lessons included trust your instincts;... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 1

decide how to respond to the global economic crisis. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810012-PDF-ENG Intel NBI: Handheld Graphics Organization Harvard Business School Case 608-098 The Handheld Graphics Organization (HGO) was an internal View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Oct 2024
  • Research & Ideas

How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation

executive suites, start-up firms, and even entire professions and industries. Within finance, in particular, decisionmakers’ political views influence investment returns, credit ratings, asset allocations, loan terms, and bond yields,... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 17 Feb 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Tales of the Newly-minted MBA

for several years before joining Novantas, a start-up consulting firm located in New York. The first eighteen months, she recalled, were "absolutely wonderful. I felt like my mentors at the firm were really excited about the work I... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 11 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 11

of its top customers to nontraditional competitors-IBM and SAP on the one hand, big data start-ups on the other-offering data-intensive, analytics-based services that could connect to any industrial device. So GE launched a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Feb 2008
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Starting a Business

Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions to be answered: Should I keep control of my company? How do I turn potential into profit? How can a resource-challenged... View Details
  • 07 Jan 2009
  • What Do You Think?

Is the World Really Flat?

how innovation that matters really occurs and aren't always helpful to long-term global or even U.S. development. Bhidé's conclusions are based on interviews with a large sample of start-up entrepreneurs as well as economic analysis. He's... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 11 Sep 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Riding the Internet Fast Track

bottom lines, ultimately depressing stock prices. To circumvent this problem, some firms issue "tracking stock," hoping that capital markets will perceive them much like traditional start-up stocks. So when should a company... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
  • 30 Apr 2001
  • What Do You Think?

Dot.Com Shakeout: Chess or Roulette?

One reason is that the better-backed ventures had twelve to eighteen months of financing when the market for Internet-based start-ups tanked a year ago. Another is that, through relatively astute management, less well-financed... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 09 Feb 2012
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Online Marketing

Groupon Effective? Is Groupon Good for Retailers? For retailers offering deals through the wildly popular online start-up Groupon, does the one-day publicity compensate for the deep hit to profit margins? A new working paper, "To Groupon... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Technology
  • 06 Sep 2006
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Mixing Students and Scientists in the Classroom

microbial scale formation inside industrial water pipes. The team used their prize to launch a start-up based on the technology. Q: Did all of the projects lead to viable business concepts? A: No, and that's an essential lesson. A lot of... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education
  • 10 Jan 2005
  • What Do You Think?

Public Pension Reform: Does Mexico Have the Answer?

2004, AFORES were allowed to begin investing up to 15 percent of fund assets in the Mexican stock market and up to an added 20 percent in foreign securities. This ruling is thought to have helped fuel a 40 percent increase in the value of the stocks on the Mexican... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services
  • 10 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The State of the Markets

to pay the IOUs coming due." Financial markets can help that happen by offering mechanisms that enable capital to be allocated to companies and industries where it can be the most productive. The result is structural changes in the economy, the development of... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
  • 13 May 2014
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First Look: May 13

publicly stated goals. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2014/05/how-to-outsmart-activist-investors/ar/1 August 2013 Harvard Business Review Making 'Freemium' Work: Many Start-ups Fail to Recognize the Challenges of This Popular Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 21

entrepreneurial human capital across several generations. We test this idea by looking at the spatial location of past mines across the United States: proximity to historical mining deposits is associated with bigger firms and fewer View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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